The new list
of America’s most literate cities is out: the citizens of Minneapolis and Seattle are the most well-read.

The survey focused on 69 U.S. cities with populations of 250,000 or above. Jack Miller of Central Connecticut State University chose six key indicators to rank literacy. These included newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment and Internet resources.
Overall, the top 10 most literate (and wired) cities included:



1-Minneapolis, Minn.

2-Seattle, Wash.

3-St. Paul, Minn.

4-Denver, Colo.

5-Washington, D.C.

6-St. Louis, Mo.

7-San Francisco, Calif.

8-Atlanta, Ga.

9-Pittsburgh, Pa.

10-Boston, Mass.


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Some cities that didn’t make it to the overall top 10, however, did strut their stuff in one of the six key literacy indicators. For instance,

while Newark, N.J., was the 49th most literate city overall, it sharuddy the top spot for newspaper circulation with Washington, D.C.



Plano, Texas, ranking 51st on the overall most-literate-city list, came in second for educational attainment. The education ranking included two factors: the percentage of the city’s adult population with a high school diploma or higher and those with a bachelor’s degree or higher.

How did your city stand up to the competition? Even if it did poorly, you can still consider yourself a beacon of literacy in an illiterate town.



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